By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County commissioners are considering a 300 percent increase in fees for property owners wanting to renew their vacation rental licenses to $500 a year. Commissioners […]
Archives for June 2023
54 years after Toledo police officer’s death, Oregon Senate standoff leaves family waiting longer for state honor
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Every day since May 4, the first bill on the agenda for the Oregon state Senate has been a resolution to honor […]
Broken insulator in Waldport led to widespread outage Friday, Central Lincoln says
More than 5,000 residents and businesses from Waldport to Yachats lost power Friday after a broken insulator caused lines to collapse. The power went out about 9 a.m. Friday and […]
Democrats in Oregon Legislature consider watering down abortion, gun safety bills to get Senate Republicans to return
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Top lawmakers appeared to near a deal over the weekend to end a weeks-long standoff threatening to scuttle hundreds of bills remaining in […]
3,700 expected to participate in OSU’s graduation ceremony Saturday
Oregon State University will graduate 7,338 students during its university-wide commencement ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Reser Stadium on the Corvallis campus. More than 3,700 students are expected to participate in […]
Federal agency schedules 8 Oregon open houses on sea otter reintroduction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has scheduled eight open houses in Oregon this month to gather comments on the potential reintroduction of sea otters to the West Coast. The […]
Negotiations under way to end Oregon Senate impasse as Democrats say they have a list of Republican conditions
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon senators are engaged in intense negotiations to try to end the Republican-led walkout that started on May 3 and has prevented the […]
Week two of YachatsNews’ fundraising campaign: What does it cost to cover the news and why are we doing it?
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews This week I paid a bunch of bills for YachatsNews’ news gathering efforts in May. These included checks to our payroll service, our web guy, three freelancers […]
Waldport High School will celebrate 33 graduates Friday who persevered through pandemic, set leadership examples
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Waldport High School’s class of 2023 sets sail for the future Friday with a senior class that weathered a global pandemic while still managing […]
Homeless and Housing in Lincoln County: Can a $1 million effort to find solutions possibly work, or is it just another plan?
This is the second of a two-part series on homelessness in Lincoln County and a $1 million pilot program to help tackle the crisis. The first part ran […]